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MS2 Kezia Coffin Fanning Papers, Folder 5, Book 1

by: Fanning, Kezia Coffin, 1759–1820.

Publication date: 1775
Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0
Topics: Businesses, Massachusetts, Nantucket, History, Revolution, 1775-1783, United States, Personal narratives, Women, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Diaries, 19th Century, 18th Century
Collection: nantucket-historical-association; folkscanomy_historical_texts; folkscanomy
Language: english-handwritten
Item Size: 657.0M

Folder 5 Book 1 contains notes and extracts of the diary. The Kezia Fanning Coffin papers consist of original pages from and copies of Kezia Coffin Fanning’s diary. Fanning’s diary records family events and news of Nantucket, particularly births, deaths, and marriages. Notable entries describe the robbery at the Nantucket Bank and politics during the American Revolution. Entries also describe fishing, whaling, commerce, and trade. Fanning began her diary at age sixteen and continued writing until her death. The record originally numbered 50 booklets, all lost, excluding the collection’s original pages and copies made by family members.
Materials in this collection were digitized with support from Connie and Tom Cigarran.

Addeddate: 2022-04-20 19:15:32
Collection_added: folkscanomy_historical_texts
folkscanomy
Identifier: ms2folder5book1
Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/s2hpv1ms5wn
Ocr: tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e: language not currently OCRable
Ocr_module_version: 0.0.15
Ppi: 600
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Year: 1775